Improvement in bale-ties



R. DeGRAY.

BALE-TIE.

Patented Jilly 10,*1877.

Nv-PETERS, PHOTO-LITHOGRAPMER. WASHINGTON. I) C.

neath said lips or hooks,

UNITED STATEs PATENT OFFICE.

RIcHARD DE GRAY, or NEw ORLEANS, LOUISIANA. Y

i IMPROVEMENT IN BALE-TIES Specification forming part of Letters Patent N o. 192,978, datedJuly 10, 1877; application filed April 30, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD DE GRAY, cf the city of New Orleans, parish of Orleans, and State of Louisiana, have invented a new ,and useful Improvement in Bale-Ties; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had .to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a plan view ofthe buckle of the tie as it appears after it has been stamped out of a piece of metal, and ready to be bent in proper shape. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the same completed, or as it may be cast, and' in a condition for use. Fig. 3 is a top View of the buckle and a portion of the band as fastened and secured around the bale. Fig. 4 is a vertical transverse section of the buckle or tie and its band, in a condition for being fastened and tied around a bale. Fig. 5 is a similar View except that the buckle or tie and its hand are represented as having been firmly and completely fastened around the bale and the end of the band cut o' and bent back-v ward and downward close on the dan ge.

The nature of my invention consists in a tic or buckle, having fastening lips or teeth which are raised above the surface and provided at each end with a slotted ange, said fianges being at right angles to the plane of the buckle, and slightly lower than the plane or level of the fastening lips or teeth through which the band or strap is passed, so that as it is shoved or pulled forward the perforations or buckling-holes therein, will, as they pass over said fastening lips or hooks, catch underwhen the force of shoving or pulling is discontinued.

In the accompanying drawings, A is a cotton-bale; B, the balin g band; and C, the buckle. The baling-band is perforated with a series of oblong buckling-holes, a, on one of its ends. The buckle (l hasinclined teeth or lips, as at D D', formed on it by slitting and pressing up the slitted portions of the metal, or by being thus cast, and in front of the tooth D a slot, F, is eut transversely to the length of the buckle, which slot is intersected G, while the other or xed end passes through but one of the slotted lianges and then down through the slot F of the buckle, and is turned up against the under surface ofthe buckle and band. The lips extend up through the perforations of the band, and when hooked and fastened the end of the band through the slot b is cut oft' and bent backward close down over said flange G b.

With this improved buckle the band is firmly caught and held, and cannot casually lengthenand become loose on the cotton-bale during the handling of the same.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The com bination, with the perforated balingband, of the buckle having teeth, as at D D', and slotted anges, as at (Jr G, through which the band is passed and afterward turned over flush with itstop surface, substantially as described.

Witness my hand in the matter of my application fora patent for an improved bale-tie, this 25th day of April, 1877. Y

RICHARD DE GTRAY. Witnesses:

GEO. W. CHRISTY, T. A. BARTLETTE.

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